The Grinch Defeated Santa Claus

The enemy of the Christmas spirit got away with it. He converted Christmas Eve into a long evening of shared worries for the future of humanity and of this country. The Grinch has allies, really accomplices, in the highest circles of power. One of the most dangerous wet blankets, Donald Trump, infused with the malevolent spirit, informed us that he plans to expand the United States’ nuclear capacity. To listen to that statement while one is carrying pilgrims in the middle of Christmas celebrations makes one’s hair stand on end.

Of course there is no precise data, since this is about a number that few can access, but the experts maintain that the U.S. has 8,000 nuclear warheads, sufficient to reduce the earth to dust in the sky in a few minutes. Why in the world would it want to expand its arsenal? Perhaps to destroy other planets while we’re at it. In the logic of the Cold War, the United States would use that armament to respond to an attack of the Communist powers — Russia, formerly the USSR, and China — which today oversee strange forms of state capitalism. What they want is to do business, gather millions of dollars. Imposing Marxist ideology is something out of the last century. Clearly after the imprudent statement of Trump, who is a bull in the china shop of the world, the Russians and Chinese have now declared that they are ready for whatever happens, and that since they also have their nuclear weapons, they will just make more.

Bomb shelter. More nuclear weapons as a Christmas gift, as if they were talking about ornaments for the tree. The world is, with Trump and Putin at the command positions, in the worst possible hands. Those two constitute a real danger for the civilizing process of the human species, I say without exaggerating. This is a matter of a sinister ex-KGB agent and an uncivilized and egocentric millionaire. Worse is impossible. Christmas received a beating from which it will be very difficult to recuperate. What type of gifts could Santa Claus bring to this environment? Perhaps plans to make a bomb shelter in the basements of houses, with food and medicine to survive several weeks. Or receive as a gift a border wall, a gift we did not ask for, but that they want to impose on us. In fact, the contacts between Texas authorities and the Trump team to begin construction in the first trimester of 2017 have already started. Wall, bars, border, whatever — but Trump has to send the message that he will fulfill the principal promise of his campaign.

In Mexico, things are not any better regarding the enemies of Christmas. The governor of the State of Nuevo León, Jaime Rodríguez, who calls himself El Bronco, without asking for professional assistance, took on the role of the Grinch of the Monterrey region and told the children of the state that he pretends to govern, although the real power resides in the corporations, that Santa Claus does not exist and it is the parents who bring gifts to children. He stole Christmas. When social media thrashed him, El Bronco attempted to remedy his error and said in a very strange speech that Santa Claus and parents are in reality different, but closely related. It’s his trademark, the way he governs, how he says one thing and then something different without showing distress. “If you know how I am, why did you elect me?”